According to the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC), Vietnam strives for the revenue of $2 billion from software exports by the end of 2023.

The information technology (IT) labor market is still hot as it lacks workers with high qualifications, especially ones majoring in aritificial intelligence (AI), data and information security.

The Military Industry-Telecoms Group (Viettel) said it will broadcast 5G services on a large scale in the third quarter of this year.

Vietnam E-commerce and Digital Economy Agency (iDEA) under the Ministry of Industry and Trade (MoIT) said that the number of e-commerce websites and applications confirmed by the ministry increased significantly from 2019 to 2021.

A survey by Coc Coc, a well-known Vietnamese browser, found that searches for ChatGPT in Vietnam decreased by 6 percent in the second quarter 2023 compared to the second quarter, and use of has AI Chat and Ai Search increased by 101 percent.

Revenue from the communications and information industry saw a significant drop in the first half of this year due to the difficult global and domestic economic situation, according to the Ministry of Information and Communications.

Passive telecommunication infrastructure sharing has helped save investment costs for telecom carriers.

In June 2023, the Authority of Information Security (AIS) under the Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) gave warnings and instructions on how to handle 1,723 cyberattacks on information systems.

The blocking and removal of toxic information in cyberspace in the first six months of the year were very successful, according to the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information (ABEI).

HCM City authorities have decided that the majority of residents will have broadband by 2025 and smartphones for internet connection.

The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) on June 30 held a meeting to review the first-half performance and set tasks for the remaining months of the year.

In the near future, many Vietnamese will have a virtual assistant created by AI, to use in finance, consumer, education and other fields, according to experts.

A new Kaspersky Safe Kids study has revealed the most -viewed children’s interests between May 2022 and April 2023.

The number of APT (advanced persistent threat) attacks on essential establishments in Vietnam in the first half of the year increased by 9 percent compared with the same period last year.

The Vietnamese Government and businesses need to act quickly to update AI development strategies and prioritize the development of ChatGPT services for the Vietnamese people, expert Dao Trung Thanh says.

The Vietnam Digital Communications Association (VDCA) on June 19 sent a document to the Authority of Broadcasting and Electronic Information (ABEI) about 13 social networks or websites that have posted unverified information about businesses.

In order to obtain a high ratio of IoT (Internet of Things) device connection density to the population, Vietnam needs to make greater efforts with the cooperation of all technological firms.

The manager of a foreign invested enterprise (FIE) in Vietnam wanted to learn Vietnamese language quickly so that he could read 90 percent of general documents. However, he was too busy and had only one hour, from noon to 1 pm, every day to learn.

The low salary of VND10-13 million per month for many IoT (internet of things) engineers is hindering the development of Vietnam’s IoT market.

Citing three major stages of ICT industry development, deputy head of the ICT Authority Nguyen Thien Nghia said Vietnam is in the stage of doing assembly and outsourcing, and has begun shifting to making integrated products.